This volume provides a detailed commentary on the first eight lives of Cornelius Nepos' De viris illustribus, shedding new light on Nepos' biographies of the Greek commanders of the fifth century BCE (Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Pausanias, Cimon, Lysander, Alcibiades, and Thrasybulus).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Preliminary remarks on the author
- 1.2 The De Viris Illustribus
- 1.3 The Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium and its arrangement
- 1.4 Models and structure of Nepos' biographies: the influence of Encomia
- 1.5 Narratology and the Liber
- 1.6 Themes
- 1.7 The sources of the first eight biographies
- 1.8 Nepos' style and grammar
- 1.9 The manuscript tradition and the present edition
- TEXT
- COMMENTARY
- Miltiades
- Themistocles
- Aristides
- Pausanias
- Cimon
- Lysander
- Alcibiades
- Thrasybulus
- REFERENCES
